Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
successful prey capture in these habitats (Daeschler
et al. 2006).
The hypotheses outlined above need to be tested
further. As the study of tetrapod terrestriality pro-
ceeds, it will be necessary to develop palaeoecologi-
cal models based on multiple lines of evidence
including sedimentology, taphonomy, functional
morphology, developmental biology, biogeochem-
istry and other disciplines that can be synthesized
to provide a holistic picture of these ancient non-
analogue ecosystems.
Berry,C.M.&Edwards, D. 1996. The herbaceous
lycophyte Haskinsia Grierson and Banks from
the Devonian of western Venezuela, with obser-
vations on leaf morphology and fertile specimens.
Botanical
Society
of
the
Linnean
Society, 122,
103-122.
Berry,C.M.&Fairon-Demaret, M. 2001. The Middle
Devonian flora revisited. In: Gensel,P.G.&
Edwards, D. (eds) Plants Invade the Land: Evolution-
ary and Environmental Perspectives. Columbia
University Press, New York, 120-139.
Blieck, A., Clement,G.et al. 2007. The biostratigra-
phical and palaeogeographical framework of the
earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian).
In: Becker,R.T.&Kirchgasser, W. T. (eds) Devo-
nian Events and Correlations. Geological Society,
London, Special Publications, 278, 219-235.
Bridge,J.S.&Gordon, E. A. 1985. Quantitative
interpretation of ancient river systems in the Oneonta
Formation, Catskill Magnafacies. In: Woodrow,
D. L. & Sevon, W. D. (eds) The Catskill Delta. Geo-
logical Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special
Papers, 201, 163-181.
Bridge,J.S.&Nickelsen, B. H. 1986. Reanalysis of the
Twilight Park Conglomerate, Upper Devonian Catskill
Magnafacies, New York State. Northeastern Geology,
7, 181-191.
Bristow, C. S. 1999. Crevasse splays from the rapidly
aggrading sand-bed braided Niobrara River, Nebraska:
effect
References
Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics,E.&Lebedev, O. 1994. The
first tetrapod finds from the Devonian (Upper Famen-
nian) of Latvia. Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London B, 343, 303-328.
Ahlberg, P. E., Clack, J. A., Luksevics, E., Blom,H.&
Zupins, I. 2008. Ventastega curonica and the origin of
tetrapod morphology. Nature, 453, 1199-1204.
Algeo,T.J.&Scheckler, S. E. 1998. Terrestrial-marine
teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the
evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and
marine anoxic events. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society of London, B, 353, 113-130.
Algeo, T. J., Scheckler,S.E.&Maynard, J. B. 2001.
Effects of Middle to Late Devonian spread of vascular
land plants on weathering regimes, marine biotas, and
global climate. In: Gensel,P.G.&Edwards, D. (eds)
Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environ-
mental Perspectives. Columbia University Press,
New York, 213-236.
Anderson, H. M., Hiller,N.&Gess, R. W. 1995.
Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the
Devonian of southern Africa. Botanical Journal of
the Linnean Society, 117, 305-320.
Andrews, H. N., Phillips,T.L.&Radforth,N.W.
1965. Paleobotanical studies in Arctic Canada. I.
Archaeopteris
of
base-level
rise.
Sedimentology,
46,
1029-1047.
Cai, C. 1981. On the occurrence of Archaeopteris in China.
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 20, 75-80.
Cai, C. 1989. Two Callixylon species from the Upper
Devonian of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. Acta Palaeonto-
logica Sinica, 28, 571-578.
Cai, C., Wen,Y.&Chen, P. 1987. Archaeopteris florula
from Upper Devonian of Xinhui County, central
Guangdong and its stratigraphical significance (in
Chinese with English summary). Acta Palaeontologica
Sinica, 26, 55-64.
Caputo, M. V. 1985. Late Devonian glaciation in South
America.
from Ellesmere
Island.
Canadian
Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology,
Journal of Botany, 43, 545-556.
Astin, T. R., Marshall, J. E. A., Blom,H.&Berry,
C. R. 2010. The sedimentary environment of the Late
Devonian East Greenland tetrapods. In: Vecoli, M.,
Cl´ ment,G.&Meyer-Berthaud, B. (eds) The
Terrestrialization Process: Modelling Complex Inter-
actions at the Biosphere - Geosphere Interface. Geo-
logical Society, London, Special Publications, 339,
93-109.
Banks, H. P. 1980. Floral assemblages in the Siluro-
Devonian. In: Dilcher,D.L.&Taylor, T. N. (eds)
Biostratigraphy of Fossil Plants. Dowden, Hutchinson,
& Ross, Pennsylvania.
Bateman,R.M.&DiMichele, W. A. 1994. Heterospory:
the most iterative key innovation in the evolutionary
history of the plant kingdom. Biological Reviews, 69,
345-417.
Beck, C. B. 1964. Predominance of Archaeopteris
in Upper Devonian flora of western Catskills
and adjacent Pennsylvania. Botanical Gazette, 125,
126-128.
Palaeoecology, 51, 291-317.
Chaloner,W.&Sheerin, A. 1979. Devonian macro-
floras. In: House, M. R., Scrutton,C.T.&
Bassett, M. G. (eds) The Devonian System: A
Palaeontological Association International
Symposium. The Palaeontological Association,
London, UK, Special Papers
in Palaeontology,
145-161.
Chaloner, W., Hill,A.J.&Lacey, W. S. 1977. First
Devonian platyspermic seed and its implications for
gymnosperm evolution. Nature, 265, 233-235.
Clack, J. A. 2002. Gaining ground: the origin and
evolution
of
tetrapods.
Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, Indiana.
Clack, J. A. 2007. Devonian climate change, breathing,
and the origin of the tetrapod stem group. Integrative
and Comparative Biology, 47, 510-523.
Clack,J.A.&Finney, S. M. 2005. Pederpes finneyae,an
articulated tetrapod from the Tournasian of Western
Scotland. Journal of
Systematic
Palaeontology, 2,
311-346.
